Rural Life
Call for closed bank branches to be used for communities
A Kerry county councillor has called for former Bank of Ireland (BOI) branches to be developed for use by local...
Rural Life
A Kerry county councillor has called for former Bank of Ireland (BOI) branches to be developed for use by local...
Agri-Business
Farmers are slow to move from their bank and explore other options, according to a representative of the Irish Creamery...
Pig/Poultry
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has met with the main banks to discuss the current...
Agri Politics
Macra na Feirme has said that it has written to Green party MEP, Ciaran Cuffe, concerning his letter to banks...
Agri Politics
Banks are “becoming ever more detached” from the needs of their customers in rural Ireland, the Irish Cattle and Sheep...
Agri-Business
There is an urgent need for competition in a banking sector “that is fast becoming a duopoly between the two...
Agri-Business
Farmers are being reminded that applications for the Covid-19 Payment Break close next Wednesday, September 30. Issuing the reminder, Irish...
Agri-Business
Bank of Ireland has appointed Eoin Lowry as head of the agricultural sector on its Business Banking team. Lowry takes...
Rural Life
There have been calls for banks to extend the moratorium on farmers’ repayments into the traditional “settling up” period in...
Agri-Business
Banks have been called on to give farmers greater flexibility and more options in light of Covid-19. Tim Cullinan, the...
Agri-Business
Irish banks have agreed to a payment break for up to three months for business and personal customers affected by...
Rural Life
The move towards a cashless society is happening at a speed that is not working for rural areas, said Macra...
Rural Life
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and the Central Bank have been called on to put mechanisms in place that would...
Agri-Business
Winter finishers who have received approval for stocking loans this year may not draw down the funds, some of Ireland’s...
Agri Politics
A leading farm lobby group has blasted the Minister of State at the Department of Finance and the Department of...
CAP / Schemes
Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine Michael Creed met with EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, as well as the...
Rural Life
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has announced a significant escalation in its campaign against vulture funds trying to force farm...
Rural Life
Banks and other credit institutions are being called on to take an “understanding and reasonable approach” to farm loans and...